Coskun Research Group has recently published a new article in the prestigious journal Angewandte Chemie, entitled "Fully Conjugated Tetraoxa[8]circulene-Based Porous Semiconducting Polymers". 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anie.202116527

ABSTRACT

Tetraoxa[8]circulenes (TOCs) are a class of hetero[8]circulenes featuring a planar cyclooctatetraene core with a mixed aromatic/antiaromatic motif that governs their electronic properties. Polymeric TOCs (pTOCs) have been the subject of several computational simulations because they are predicted to be low band gap semiconductors, but they have not been available synthetically yet. Here, we report the first example of pTOCs, a new family of porous semiconductors, synthesized under ionothermal conditions through the intermolecular cyclization of 1,4,5,8-anthracene tetrone. pTOCs are porous, with surface areas up to 1656 m 2 g –1 , and exhibit light-switchable and tunable semiconducting properties.